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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

Francis Sr. Topics: Books And Reading English Philosopher Famous Top 100

"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."

Herbert Spencer Topics: English Philosopher Knowledge

"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Francis Bacon Topics: English Philosopher Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."

Francis Bacon Topics: English Philosopher Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

John Locke Topics: English Philosopher

"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."

Francis Bacon Topics: Advise English Philosopher

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

Alan Watts Topics: English Philosopher People

"I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person."

Rita Mero Topics: Character English Philosopher

"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."

Jeremy Bentham Topics: English Philosopher Ignorance

"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."

Francis Bacon Topics: English Philosopher

"A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

George Moore Topics: English Philosopher

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

Francis Bacon Topics: English Philosopher Observation

"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."

Thomas Hobbes Topics: Competition English Philosopher

"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

Francis Bacon Topics: Angels English Philosopher

"Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood."

Robin Collingwood Topics: Appetite English Philosopher

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."

Francis Bacon Topics: English Philosopher

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

Francis Bacon Topics: Beauty English Philosopher

"I'm glad to see that women have an important role within the industry. My no. 1 complaint would still be that most women are very submissive and victims. I would like to see women portrayed in a much stronger and intelligent capacity."

Rita Mero Topics: English Philosopher

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."

Herbert Spencer Topics: English Philosopher Folly

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

Francis Bacon Topics: Ability English Philosopher

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."

John Locke Topics: Body English Philosopher

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